Guillaume Janot

Since the mid-1990s, Guillaume Janot has developed a body of work mainly focused on the photographic medium and the question of the identity of specific places in our collective imagination. These include the series Entering Belfast (2002), Ecostream (2007- ), Roses and Guns (1995-2016), as well as a works in portraiture that involve both staged photography and a reflection on street photography as a genre, Figures (1995- ).

The artist constantly plays on his own specific modus operandi, often pushing the limits of cliché, pretence (National Trust, 2022) or quotation by confronting portraits, landscapes and still lifes.

While he often works in simultaneous series over extended periods of time, his exhibitions and books generally favour a redistribution of these bodies of work, an unabashed eclecticism underpinned by several threads rather than a singular or serial point of view.

Translated by Lucy Pons, 2024